Sentence examples for tiny swift from inspiring English sources

"Sčasovka" has no strict English equivalent, but John Tyrrell, a leading specialist on Janáček's music, describes it as "a little flash of time, almost a kind of musical capsule, which Janáček often used in slow music as tiny swift motifs with remarkably characteristic rhythms that are supposed to pepper the musical flow".

With tiny swifts rising and falling almost to the ground the only movement, I walked along a narrow dirt road at the end of which was a former primary school called Tuol Sleng.

Out to sea were all the knobbly islets and rock stacks where the salanganes live - the tiny swifts whose saliva-glued nests are used to make bird's nest soup.

Within a year, Mr. Taglioni had fashioned a tiny but swift 98-cubic-centimeter overhead cam engine that powered a bike he called the Marianna.

As the Earth crosses the debris trail of Swift-Tuttle, tiny fragments of metal and stone hit our atmosphere of speeds of 132,000 mph and burn up in vivid streaks of light.

In 2011, researchers strapped tiny instrument packages on six swifts to track their activity during their winter migration to western Africa.

Catching frogs requires not just sharp eyes (many are tiny, and most well camouflaged) but swift fingers (all are slippery and fast).

No one could have denied her the tiny dig that came next, as swift as a stiletto heel puncturing a balloon already fit to burst.

One day an acquaintance catches her off guard in a tiny restaurant and the great Mrs. Swift passes him by in preoccupied fashion.

In the novel's most thrilling cadenza, we are asked to imagine that a tiny camera is attached to a swift.

But like many of the known objects whizzing around our solar system, Swift-Tuttle has a tiny, tiny chance of hitting Earth at some point.